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Michael Fabricant, Executive Officer
Email: mfabrica@hunter.cuny.edu

Executive Officer Hunter College School of Social Work; Professor of   Policy Analysis; Research and Computer Applications; B.A.., History, University of Pittsburgh Ph.D., Social Welfare Research and Policy, The Florence Heller School, Brandeis University School of Social Work.

COURSE(S) TAUGHT:
Methods of Quanlitative Research I & II


Harriet Goodman, Deputy Executive Officer
Email: hgoodman@hunter.cuny.edu

PROFESSIONAL RESEARCH INTERESTS:

The state of social group work in contemporary social work practice; ethical issues confronted in conducting qualitative research and the role of social work education in promoting Problem Solving Courts; ethical issues in social science research.

COURSE(S) TAUGHT:

Development of Practice Knowledge in Social Work

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Recent Articles

“Organizational Insight and the Education of Advanced Group Work Practitioners” Social Work with Groups 29 (3/4), 2006.

 

“An Educational Model for Child Welfare Practice with English-Speaking Caribbean Families.” with Alma Carten.  Child Welfare 84 (5) pp. 771-789, 2006.

 

“Elderly Parents of Adults with Severe Mental Illness: Group Work Interventions.” The Journal of Gerontological Social Work. 44 (1), 2004, pp. 173-188.

 

“Developing Social Group Work Skills for Contemporary Agency Practice” with Manny Munoz Social Work with Groups. 27 (1) 2004, pp. 17-33.

Chapters in Books

“Organizational Insight and the Education of Advanced Group Work Practitioners.” in Making Joyful Noise: The Art, Science, and Soul of Group Work, Andrew Malekoff, Robert Salmon and Dominique Moyse Steinberg, (eds.) Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Press, Inc., 2006.

Scholarly and Professional Presentations

2007     “Group Work Practice within the Contemporary Landscape of Social Services.  The Association for the Advancement of Social Work with Groups. Paper presented at the 29th Annual International Symposium. Jersey City , NJ

 

2007     “Problem Solving Courts: A Research Agenda. International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services. 7th Annual Conference, Montreal Canada.

 

2006     “The Role of Social Work Education in Developing Practice-Based Researchers.” Society for Social Work Research, Conference, San Antonio , TX

CURRENT RESEARCH:

Dr. Goodman’s current research includes a survey on information literacy skills among social work professionals and a qualitative study of the experiences of child welfare workers who have received the MSW degree.




Mimi Abramovitz  
Email: iabramov@hunter.cuny.edu

PROFESSIONAL RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Social welfare policy; history of the welfare state; low income women; social welfare activism; relationship social welfare policy and social service delivery.

COURSE(S) TAUGHT:
Social Welfare Policy and Planning I & II.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Regulating The Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy From Colonial Times to the Present : South End Press, 1996 (2nd Rev Ed)

Under Attack, Fighting Back: Women and Welfare in the United States.
Monthly Review Press, 2000 ( 2nd rev  Ed);

Learning From The History of Poor and Working Class Women’s Activism. The Annals  of the American Academy of Political and Social Science,. September 2001.

The Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy. Oxford University Press, 2004 w. Joel Blau);

Taxes Are A Women 's Issue: Reframing The Debate. Feminist Press, 2006
w. Sandra Morgan

RECENT AWARDS:
2004: Distinguished Recent Contributions to Social Work Education, Council  On Social Work Education

2004: Feminist Scholarship Award, Commission on the Role and  Status of Women, Council on Social Work Education.

Current Research:
Gendered Obligations: History of Activism Among Poor and Working Class Women ( black and white) since 1900; ( in process)


Stephen Burghardt

Email: sburghar@hunter.cuny.edu




Elizabeth Ann Danto
Email: edanto@hunter.cuny.edu

PROFESSIONAL RESEARCH INTERESTS:
History of psychoanalysis and social welfare; Postmodern theories and their application to social work; Workplace social services.

RECENT BOOK:
Freud's Free Clinics, Psychoanalysis & Social Justice, 1918-1938, Columbia University Press, Spring 2005

RECENT AWARDS:
TIAA-CREF Outstanding Faculty Lecturer Award, 2004 DAAD/German Academic Exchange Service, Faculty Research Grant, 2002 Listed in "Who’s Who in America" since 1998.


James Blackburn

Email: james.blackburn@hunter.cuny.edu

 

PROFESSIONAL RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Cognitive functioning among the elderly; Family functioning across the lifespan.

 

COURSES TAUGHT:

Foundations of Social Work Practice; Human Behavior and the Social Environment I and II - M.S.W. Program.

 

RECENT BOOK:

Blackburn, James A. and Dulmus, Catherine N., Eds. (2007). Handbook of Gerontology: Evidence- Based Approaches to Theory, Practice, and Policy. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.




Sarah Jane Dodd
Email:
sdodd@hunter.cuny.edu

Ph.D., School of Social Work, University of Southern California, 2000
MSW, School of Social Work, University of Southern California, 1995
MS.Ed., State University of New York, Brockport, NY. 1993
BEd. (Honors),  Chelsea School of Human Movement, England, 1988.

PROFESSIONAL RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Health care policy, health care ethics, ethics education, program evaluation, LGBT issues.

COURSE(S) TAUGHT:
Social Welfare Policy.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Dodd, S.J. & Jansson, B.S. (2004) Expanding the boundaries of ethics education: Preparing social workers for ethical advocacy in hospital and other settings. Journal of Social Work Education, 40, 3, 455-465.

Dodd, S.J. & Rivera, H. P. (2003). Addition and Subtraction: Cost-Benefit Analysis as a Tool For Teaching Diversity Content in Social Policy. Social Policy Journal, 2, 2/3, 107-121.

Dodd, S.J. & Meezan, W. (2003). Matching AIDS Service Organizations’ Philosophy of Service Provision with a Compatible Style of Program Evaluation. An invited article for Research Methods with Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Populations, a special issue of the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services, 15, 1/2, 163-180. Also reprinted as a Chapter in Research with Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Populations.




Irwin Epstein
Email: iepstein@hunter.cuny.edu

Professor Epstein occupies the Helen Rehr Chair in Applied Social Work Research, has taught at the University of Michigan and Howard University in the United States and at the University of Warwick and the University of Wales (Cardiff) in Britain.  He has conducted practice-based research workshops at universities and social agencies in the United States, Australia, Europe and Israel. Co-author of several books and numerous articles on social worker professionalization and research utilization, his current interest is in exploring clinical data-mining as a practice-research methodology. His most recent books on the subject are: Clinical Data-Mining in Practice-Based Research: Social Work in Hospital Settings,co-edited with Susan Blumenfield and Clinical and Research Uses of an Adolescent Intake Questionnaire: What Kids Need to Talk About, co-edited with Ken Peake and Daniel Medeiros. Another collection of data-mining studies co-edited with Lynette Joubert, is a collection of multi-disciplinary data-mining studies conducted by Australian allied health practitioners. It will be published as a special issue of the Journal of Social Work Research and Evaluation.

COURSE(S) TAUGHT:
Methods of Quantitative Research; Dissertation Seminar I & II


Roberta Graziano
Email: rgrazian@hunter.cuny.edu

Certificate in Analytic Psychotherapy, Washington Square Institute 
D.S.W., City University of New York
Certified Social Worker, New York State Board Certified Diplomate 
American Board of Examiners in Clinical Social Work Member, National Academies of Practice in Social Work

PROFESSIONAL RESEARCH INTERESTS: 
Trauma studies; Aging; Mental Health; Clinical Practice; Private practice of clinical social work, specializing in adult survivors of trauma. 

COURSE(S) TAUGHT: Comparative Approaches to Theory and Practice in Social Work

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS/PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
"Why Social Work Needs a Trauma Approach". Presented at the International Conference for the Advancement of Private Practice, Lisbon, Portugal, June 2002.

The Challenge of Clinical Work with Survivors of Trauma. In J. Brandell (Ed.), Theory and Practice in Clinical Social Work. New York: Free Press, 1997.

The Adult Survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse: Linking Inner and Outer World. In J. Sanville & J. Edward (Eds.), Fostering Healing and Growth. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1996.

Treating Women Incest Survivors: A Bridge Between "Cumulative Trauma" and "Post-traumatic Stress". Social Work in Health Care, 17 (1992).


Bernadette Hadden
Email: bhadden@hunter.cuny.edu

Bernadette R. Hadden is an Assistant Professor at the Hunter College School of Social Work.  She obtained a B.S.W. Honors Degree from The University of the Western Cape, South Africa, in 1986.  She received her MSW (1989) and Ph.D. (1998) from Columbia University School of Social Work.

PROFESSIONAL RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Dr. Hadden's research interests include cognitive-behavioral skills-building HIV/AIDS prevention interventions in the U.S. among methadone maintenance program participants, injection and non-injection drug users, and the mentally ill, and in South Africa among persons with sexually transmitted infections.  Her research focuses on women of color and HIV/AIDS, HIV/AIDS prevention interventions among black men and women who self-identify as heterosexual, and depression and anxiety among the elderly.  She has served as Program Evaluator of the Hunter College School of Social Work/Brookdale Center on Aging Geriatric Field Practicum Development Program, funded by The Hartford Foundation, Inc.  She also served as Program Evaluator on a SAMHSA-funded Evaluation/Research Contract with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's "Reductions in Disparities in Access to Mental Health Services in Non-mental Health Settings Among Racial/Ethnic Minorities" Program.  During 2000-2007, she served as the Co-Director of a New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation/Hunter MSW Scholarship Program.


COURSES TEACHING

Dr. Hadden teaches Social Work Research I and II, Human Behavior and the Social Environment I, II, and III, and Health and Mental Health Policy in the Hunter College School of Social Work MSW program.  She advises Doctoral students on their dissertations.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Pilowski, D. J., Hoover, D., Hadden, B.R., Fuller, C., Ompad, D., Andrews, H. F., De Leon, C., Hoepner, L., Xia, Q., & Latkin, C. (in press). Impact of social network characteristics on high risk sexual behaviors among non-injection drug users. Journal of Substance Use and Misuse.

Hadden, B.R. (2002). Exploring a model of HIV prevention using a cognitive-behavioral skills-building framework with black immigrants. Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Services, 1, (2) 77-100.

Ivry, J., & Hadden, B.R. (2002). The Hunter experience: Innovations in the field practicum. Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 39, (1/2), 129-144.

Ivry, J. & Hadden, B.R. (2002). The Hunter experience: Innovations in the field practicum. In J. Mellor & J. Ivry (Eds.), Advancing Gerontological Social Work Education (pp.129-144). New York: The Haworth Press.

Schilling, R.F., El-Bassel, N., Hadden, B.R., & Gilbert, L. (1995). Skills training groups to reduce HIV transmission and drug use among methadone patients. Social Work, 40, 91 101.

CURRENT RESEARCH
A randomized controlled trial focusing on HIV prevention among drug users and their drug and sex network partners in Central and East Harlem. 




Paul Kurzman
Email: pkurzman@hunter.cuny.edu

PROFESSIONAL RESEARCH INTERESTS: 
Exploration of the Impact of Licensing and Credentialing on Social Workers and Social Agencies; Study of the Meaning of Work and Non-Work to Different Demographic Populations; Occupational Social Work Policy and Practice; Applied Ethics

COURSE(S) TAUGHT:
Program Design and Administration I

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Books

Work and the Workplace: A Resource for Innovative Policy and Practice with S. Akabas (Columbia University Press, 2005).

Psychosocial and Policy Issues in the World of Work (Family Service International Press, 1995)

Work and Well-Being: The Occupational Social Work Advantage with S. Akabas, eds., (NASW Press, 1993).

Work, Workers and Work Organizations with S. Akabas, eds., (Prentice-Hall, 1982).

Articles
"Managing Liabilty and Risk in Nonprofit Settings" in Edwars and Yankey, eds, Effectively Managing Nonprofit Organizations (NASW Press, 2006).

"Bakalinsky's Conundrum: Should Social Workers Practice in the World of Work?" Administration in Social Work, Vol. 23(4), 1999.

"Managing Risk in Nonprofit Settings" in Edwards, et.al., eds., Skills for Effective Management of Nonprofit Organizations (NASW Press, 1998). 

"Workplace Ethics: Issues for Human Service Professionals" in Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics, Vol IV, (Academic Press, 1998).

"Professional Liability and Malpractice" in Encyclopedia of Social Work, 19th ed., Vol. III, (NASW Press, 1995).

"Improving the Lives of Homecare Workers: A Partnership of Social Work and Labor" with R. Donovan and C. Rotman, Social Work, Vol. 38(5), 1993.

Current Research:
Ethical Issues in Professional Practice;
Employee Assistance Program Effectiveness; Management of Public and Nonprofit Organizations


Gerald Mallon
Email: Mrengmal@aol.com

Carmen Morano
Email: cmorano@hunter.cuny.edu

Jacqueline B. Mondros, Dean, School of Social Work
Email: jmondros@hunter.cuny.edu


Beth Spenciner Rosenthal
Email: rosenthal@york.cuny.edu

Professor of Social Work; Principal Investigator - NIH-funded grant on antecedents and consequences of adolescent stress; Chairperson, Social Sciences Department, York College-CUNY.  Designated by IASWR as “one of 15 leading social work researchers in the U.S.”  For further information on her research and opportunities for graduate students, see: http://www.york.cuny.edu/~rosen/index.shtml

Research Interests:
Adolescent health and mental health; adolescent stressors; risk and resilience in adolescence; cross-cultural research on adolescents

Courses Taught:
Advanced Statistical Analysis in Social Work Research

Selected Publications:
Rosenthal, B. S., & Wilson, W. C. (in press). Mental health services: Utilization and disparity among diverse college students. Journal of American College Health.

Wilson , W. C., Rosenthal, B. S., & Battle , W. S. (in press). Effects of gender, ethnicity and educational status on exposure to community violence and psychological distress in adolescence. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma.

Rosenthal, B. S., & Wilson, W. C. (2006). Adolescents’ psychological response to the experience of community interpersonal violence: A cross-national and a cross-cultural comparison. Adolescence, 41, 417-433.

Wilson, W. C., Rosenthal, B. S., & Austin, S. (2005). Exposure to community violence and upper respiratory illness in older adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Health, 36, 313-319.

Rosenthal, B. S., Wilson, W. C., & Baboolal, T. (2004). Exposure to community violence and psychological distress: Jamaican college students in N or th America – Jamaican or N or th American? Caribbean Journal of Social W or k, 3, 24-37.

Wilson , W. C., & Rosenthal, B. S. (2004). Psychological impact of the W or ld Trade Center attack: Analysis bef or e and after. Psychological Rep or ts, 94, 587-606.

Recent Presentations:
Rosenthal, B. S., & Wilson, W. C. (2007, August). Risk and protective fact or s in relation to PTSD symptoms. Paper presented at International Congress on Stress, Budapest , Hungary .

Baboolal, T., & Rosenthal, B. S. (2007, June). College students’ use of counseling: Comparison between Jamaican-Americans and Jamaican-West Indians. Caribbean and International Social W or k Educat or s Conference, Trinidad, West Indies .

Rosenthal, B. S., & Wilson, W. C. (2006, February). Cross-ethnic comparisons of psychological distress and use of mental health counseling among U.S. urban adolescents. Paper presented at annual meeting of Society f or Cross-Cultural Research, Savannah , GA.  

Recent Awards:
2004-2008 National Institutes of Health (National Institute of General Medical Sciences): “Exposure to Chronic Community Violence and Its Consequences”

Current Research:
Cumulative effect of risk and protective fact or s in adolescence; adolescent trauma and PTSD in young adulthood.


Anthony Sainz
Email:
asainz@hunter.cuny.edu

Andrea Savage
Email:
savage@hunter.cuny.edu


Michael J. Smith
Email: msmith@hunter.cuny.edu

Professor Smith has specialized in social work research throughout his career. He is the author of a best selling text Program evaluation in the Human Services. He teaches research in the Masters and Doctors Program in the School of Social Work. Dr. Smith has published in the areas of program evaluation, family care of the developmentally disabled, mental health, child welfare and youth programs, single- parent family and family care of the elderly.

COURSE(S) TAUGHT:
Methods of Data Analysis


Willie Tolliver

Email: wtollive@hunter.cuny.edu


Florence Vigilante
Email: florence.vigilante@hunter.cuny.edu

COURSE(S) TAUGHT:
Education in Social Welfare


Darrell Wheeler
Email: dwheeler@hunter.cuny.edu

 


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